Catherine Ruth Pakaluk, Ph.D., is associate professor at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth (Regnery, 2024) is available for pre-order now, and ships on March 19, 2024. (Copyright (c) 2024 Catherine Pakaluk. Excerpted by permission of Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.)
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By Jonathon Van Maren, European Conservative, March 24, 2024
Jonathon Van Maren is a contributing editor to The European Conservative. He has written for First Things, National Review, The American Conservative, and his latest book is Prairie Lion: The Life & Times of Ted Byfield.
Collapsing birth rates are a dysfunction; we should be consulting urgently with people who escape this outcome.
Until I read Catherine Pakaluk’s fascinating new book, Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth, I was unaware that I had grown up in what is now considered to be a “large family.” I am the oldest of five children, but my father came from a family of 11 and my mother was one of 7. In the rural Reformed church communities where I live, a family of five children is considered “average” rather than “large.” But communities with large families are now a social aberration. With the exception of a few religious pockets, the birth rate is cratering in every single Western country. …
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